Word: disport
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been said that there is none, but if there was a general understanding that papers should not be brought within a stone's throw of the chapel, it might do something in keeping these young business men on the thoroughfares of this town, instead of allowing them to disport themselves on the green in the college yard. Whoever wishes to see a stop put to this traffic and its accompanying evils, let him buy his newspapers on the street and purchase nothing from the boys in the yard...
...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...
...known to whom belongs the distinction of having first conceived the College Toga. * * * * It may be of interest to remark that the writer was an undergraduate at the time referred to, and that the identical toga, not yet shorn of its pristine attractions, in which he used to disport himself, lies at this moment before...
Among the most curious of the fantastic celebrations, burials and burnings which college undergraduates are wont to disport themselves with after the completion of some dreaded course in the curriculum, none is more worthy of notice than the "Burial of Legendre" which the Columbia sophomores perform annually with great pomp and circumstance. Not one of the least peculiar circumstances connected with the burial is the fact that it takes place in the great city of New York amid the bustle and hurry of Metropolitan life, while the people look on and wonder at the strange doings of the jolly...